Every time I turn on a 5150 I've been given to fix, I just see a dash
(blinking) on the upper left of the screen.
 I've swapped hard drives, tried to boot from a CD, tried it without
hard drives, and reseated the memory.
 Tried it with and without the battery and AC.
 
 Still, no results.

 Any ideas about this?

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 25 Feb 2006 17:40 PST

Hi pcventures...

This sounds like it's getting through the BIOS POST,
and is balking at the point where it's trying to 
load the operating system. Does it look to you like
it's going through the BIOS POST, with the typical
messages about the system? Have you tried entering
the BIOS?

sublime1-ga

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Clarification of Question by pcventures-ga on 01 Mar 2006 07:02 PST

Greetings:

It won't even allow me to do an F2 - goes right to the blinking cursor.
Since posting the question, I found out on a different forum that
it's most likely a bad system board.

I've told the owner of the laptop to have Dell do a warranty repair.

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 01 Mar 2006 22:38 PST

Yeah, if you're not even seeing the BIOS, that's what I would
have told you, as well. A bad motherboard sounds right.

Best regards...

sublime1-ga